Comprehensive set of nursing skills and procedures that cross the nursing curriculum and can be used in clinical, or the skills laboratory.. For use in hospitals and medical clinics as policy/procedure books or for reference.
The most complete, up-to-date and useful guide to modern clinical nursing skills available! With more than 1,200 full-color images illustrating more than 750 new and updated skills, it is the definitive resource for best practice nursing standards, guidelines, and competencies. The authors teach through extensive case studies and critical thinking features, and thoroughly explain the rationales for each skill and technique. Strong coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious considerations, nursing management, and community based nursing is provided throughout. Easily adaptable to any conceptual curriculum model, this text also contains hundreds of NCLEX®-style review questions. This edition adds a new chapter on neurological care; has integrated coverage of home care throughout; provides substantial new coverage of the 2010 national patient safety goals; and contains approximately 50 new skills.
Key Features
- Comprehensive coverage– from the very basic to high tech advanced skills.
- Organized around the nursing process –from assessment through evaluation.
- Evidence-based practice–presenting studies and research that underpin new and specific changes in skill performance.
- Critical Thinking sections in every unit and chapter–including unexpected outcomes and alternative nursing actions.
- NCLEX®-style questions–over 300 NCLEX® -style questions at the end of every chapter, with answers and rationales provided in the appendix.
- More than 1,200 full-color photographs, line drawings, charts, and tables–depicting step-by-step, up-to-date nursing procedures and equipment.
- Learning Objectives and Terminology–supporting the text’s explanations of procedures with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation.
- Legal Alerts–identify legal pitfalls nurses can encounter.
- Nursing Diagnoses phrased in current terminology–preceding the text’s step-by-step procedures
- Rationales for specific nursing actions–explain why each action is performed.
- Clinical Alerts–callingattention to safety issues, essential information, and actions that require critical decision making.
- Cultural Competence features–illuminating the role that cultural diversity principles play in providing effective client care.
- Documentation guidelines–explaining how to document skill, outcome, and client response, and why it is crucial to do so.
- Gerontologic Considerations–presentingspecific concepts influencing or affecting care of the elderly.
- Expanded Management Guidelines–including legal, safe, and appropriate delegation of responsibilities.
- New and unique! Chapter 32: Neurological Management—includes theoretical background, assessment and care of the unconscious client, monitoring and management of increased intracranial pressure, and traditional and alternative assessment tools.
- New! Approximately 50 new skills–added throughout the book, reflecting the National Council Test Plan and NCLEX objectives.
- New! Home care coverage–now integrated throughout.
- Updated! New photos and line drawings–illuminating many skills, techniques, and procedures.
- Updated! Extensive new coverage of national patient safety goals –included in multiple chapters, especially admission and discharge.
- Updated! Medication Administration guidelines–including new guidelines for parenteral and enteral medication administration, medication reconciliation, medication labeling, and barcode medication administration.
- Updated! Heat and cold modalities–including expanded theory and rationale; warm air blankets; updated infant radiant warmers; and induced hypothermia.
- Expanded! Advanced Skills coverage–now including SvO2 and intra-aortic balloon pump content, as well as updated on preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Table of Contents
- 1. Professional Nursing
- 2. Nursing Process and Critical Thinking
- 3. Managing Client Care: Documentation and Delegation
- 4. Communication and Nurse-Client Relationship
- 5. Admission, Transfer, and Discharge
- 6. Client Education and Discharge Planning
- 7. Safe Client Environment and Restraints
- 8. Bathing, Bedmaking, and Maintaining Skin Integrity
- 9. Personal Hygiene
- 10. VItal Signs
- 11. Physical Assessment
- 12. Body Mechanics and Positioning
- 13. Exercise and Ambulation
- 14. Infection Control
- 15. Disaster Preparedness. Bioterrorism
- 16. Pain Management
- 17. Alternative Therapies and Stress Management
- 18. Medication Administration
- 19. Nutritional Management and NG Intubation
- 20. Specimen Collection
- 21. Diagnostic Procedures
- 22. Urinary Elimination
- 23. Bowel Elimination
- 24. Heat and Cold Therapies
- 25. Wound Care and Dressings
- 26. Perioperative Care
- 27. Orthopedic Interventions
- 28. Intravenous Therapy
- 29. Central Vascular Access
- 30. Respiratory Care
- 31. Circulatory Maintenance
- 32. Neurological Management - NEW!
- 33. Advanced Nursing Skills
- 34. End of Life Care
Product Details
- Paperback: 1472 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 013511473X
- ISBN-13: 978-0135114735
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.9 inches
List Price: $99.95